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VOCAL Board Meeting Scheduled for Wednesday, August 1st
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This is an extra Board meeting, and is open to all members.

Please note: VOCAL does not reimburse for mileage nor provides lunch to guests.

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"Recovery, Social Rehabilitation, and Living Tobacco Free" Webinar
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Tuesday, July 31st from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Hosted by the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center 

To register: Click here 

Speaker: Dori S. Hutchinson, Sc.D., Director of Services, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University, and Associate Clinical Professor at Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University present.  

  Webinar objectives:

• Provide a brief overview of the toll of tobacco among those with serious mental illness
• Discuss a framework for recovery
• Explain strategies to assess and develop readiness for recovery and social rehabilitation
• Describe the importance of the role of peers in tobacco cessation
• Study real life case studies

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Survey: How Do Peers and Peer-Run Organizations Use
Social Media and Online Tools?
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This short survey is designed to help NEC gain an understanding of how peers and peer-run organizations are using social media and online tools. NEC will also use this information to get a sense of how to best help meet technical assistance needs in this area among peers and peer-run organizations. This survey should only take 5-10 minutes of your time.

Click here to take the survey.

Your response by August 10 is appreciated. Thank you so much for your time!

Also -- if you weren't able to attend Get Social! Using Social Media to Advance Your Mission, Raise Awareness, and Provide Peer Support, the webinar archive is available online. Click here to view the webinar.

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Webinar: "Latest Research and Promising Practices for Treating
Tobacco in Smokers with Co-occurring Mental Illness
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Tuesday, July 31^st from 3:00 - 4:15 p.m.

Hosted by: Center for Tobacco Cessation 

To register:Click here 

Speaker: Judith Prochaska, PhD, MPH - Dr. Prochaska is a licensed clinical psychologist, from Stanford University's Department of Medicine. Her research focuses on developing effective treatments for tobacco dependence and other leading health risk factors with a specific focus on populations with co-occurring disorders.

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"On the Road Again" Driver's Education Class at 84 Main in Warsaw
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Friday, July 20^th and 27^th from 1:00-2:00 p.m.

For further information, call: 804.333.3581

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Friends 4 Recovery Whole Health Center Offers MBCT Class
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

This class facilitated by Larry Almarode, is an 8-week evidence-based curriculum program focused on creating a Mindfulness Meditation practice to prevent relapse into Depression. It also incorporates principles of Cognitive Therapy in challenging the accuracy of our thoughts as related to our moods.  Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy is listed on SAMSHA's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices and more information can be found at MBCT.com and here at SAMSHA's website:
http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/ViewIntervention.aspx?id=239

*Note: No actual "Therapy" is part of the course work; all classes are composed of a maximum of 12 participants and done so in an atmosphere of non-judgmental and open sharing.

Participants are expected to commit to the full 8-week course, start a Mindfulness Meditation practice for at least 8 weeks, be living in Recovery and Wellness and do homework each week. The course includes as part of its curriculum Guided Meditation CDs and a copy of Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn. We ask that participants that are able to pay the Center the cost of the Book and CDs. Partial and full Scholarships for the payment for the Books and CDs are available. We welcome donations to support scholarships.

Classes start August 1^st from 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. and will continue each Wednesday at the Center, finishing on Sept 19^th.

Contact: Larry Almarode at W-(804)308-1366 or C-(804)986-7129 or email larry@friends4recovery.org for details.

Friends 4 Recovery Whole Health Center is located at: 9511 Hull Street Rd Suite A, Richmond, VA

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Violet Taylor Recipient of NAMI VA Award!
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Violet Taylor, Regional Peer Bridger and VOCAL member, will be the recipient of the 2011 NAMI VA Outstanding Consumer Achievement Award, to be presented this Sunday in Richmond.

This award is presented to a mental health consumer who has exhibited exceptional service on behalf of people with mental illness. The recipient displays exemplary courage and leadership not only in staying the course to recovery but also in educating and helping others to understand and to overcome.

This award recognizes Violet's commitment and leadership in the mental health recovery field.

Congratulations, Violet! 

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